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The Back Story provides context and background information regarding the main character to The Story.

In this study of Luke 2 and the events surrounding the birth of Jesus, we see the Shepherds who receive a visitation by angel and the heavenly host announcing the birth of Jesus, Savior, Messiah, and Lord. The sign they were given was that they would find a baby wrapped in cloths, laying in a manger. But this was no ordinary manger. According to tradition, the manger was actually a feeding trough that was hewn out of rock. And the stable was actually a cave.

The shepherds were given a sign: They would find newborn baby Jesus in a feeding trough (manger) inside a cave. This was a foreshadowing of the purpose Jesus was born. Because some 30-plus years later, Jesus would again be wrapped in cloths and laid in a cave. That cave was his tomb. And the death that He died would be for the puprose of taking away the sins of the world.